All-China Federation of Trade Unions

All-China Federation of Trade Unions
Founded1 May 1925 (1925-05-01)
TypePeople's organization; national trade union center
HeadquartersBeijing, China
Location
Members
  • 302 million (2017)
  • 280 million (2013)
  • 250 million (2012)
  • 193 million (2008)
  • 134 million (2005)
Key people
Wang Dongming, Chairman
Xu Liuping, Party Secretary
Publication
Workers' Daily
AffiliationsWFTU
Profintern (historical)
Websiteacftu.org
All-China Federation of Trade Unions
Simplified Chinese中华全国工会
Traditional Chinese中華全國工會
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinZhōnghuá Quánguó Zǒng Gōnghuì
Wade–GilesChunghua Ch'üankuo Tsung Kunghoe

The All-China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU) is the national trade union center and people's organization of the People's Republic of China. It is the largest trade union in the world with 302 million members in 1,713,000 primary trade union organizations. The ACFTU is divided into 31 regional federations and 10 national industrial unions. The ACFTU is the country's sole legally mandated trade union, with which all enterprise-level trade unions must be affiliated. There has been dispute over whether ACFTU is an independent trade union or a trade union at all. The federation owns a higher education institution—the China University of Labor Relations.